Abstract: A bolsterless bogie for rail vehicles has at least one link which is directly connected to the bogie frame and the rail vehicle center pivot by means of wear-free rubber joints and connecting pins. Rubber buffers limit the transverse motion between center pivot and bogie frame; vertical forces are transmitted by air-spring bellows arranged in the vehicle center plane between the underframe and the bogie side sill, and stops effective in the travel direction are provided between center pivot and bogie frame.

Abstract: An espresso machine has a coffee brewing chamber, a water reservoir and a water heater. Two electrical pumps are provided, one capable of supplying a smaller quantity of water from the reservoir via the heater to the brewing chamber so as to make a regular-strength coffee beverage, and the other capable of supplying a considerably larger quantity of water from the reservoir via the heater to the brewing chamber, so as to make a weaker-strength coffee beverage from an identical quantity of coffee. A selector at the outside of the machine allows a user to select which one of the pumps he wishes to energize.

Abstract: An apparatus for venting and deaerating a liquid circuit, such as the coolant circuit of an internal combustion engine, has a surge tank with an air-side port and a liquid-side port. Installed in the air-side port is a tube, through one end of which liquid to be deaerated is admitted at a certain velocity. The tube has a longitudinally extending lateral slot through which the admitted liquid is discharged; opposite the slot is located a baffle onto which the discharged liquid impinges over a large surface area. This causes even small air bubbles to be liberated from the liquid so as to remain in the air-side part, whereas the deaerated liquid runs off the baffle and into the liquid-side part of the surge tank.

Abstract: A toaster has a casing, two or more walls of which define between themselves an upright food-receiving space, and a base defining with the lower edges of these walls a clearance open to the food-receiving space. A separate food carrier is insertable into the clearance so that food-holding portions of the carrier project from the clearance into the space. Heating elements toast or warm the food in the space. Guides are provided to facilitate insertion and withdrawal of the carrier from the clearance.

Abstract: A disposable razor has a body of synthetic plastic material. The front portion of the body has a slot in which a single-edge blade is mounted. A bladeguard is either a separate element and detachably connected to the body, or is of one piece with the body and can be broken off and removed.

Abstract: A new and useful coke oven door which is simple in construction but provides complete sealing efficiency. A pair of supporting holes are formed on each of upper and lower portions of the side plates of the door body, and through the supporting holes a locking bar extends which has on the center portion an arm for rotating and on both ends rollers eccentrically located with respect thereto. By rotating the locking bar with the arm, the door can be moved slightly backward or forward when removing or installating lest the knife edge should scratch the door sealing frame.

Abstract: A vestibule connection for the adjoining ends of two cars of a rapid-transit vehicle includes an apron which is maintained centered in the space between turntables at the adjoining ends, by being mounted on two transverse parallel shafts via telescopable units that are pivoted to these shafts and alternate ones of which, as considered in direction lengthwise of the shafts, exert a biasing action on the apron in mutually opposite directions along the centerline of the two cars.

Abstract: A device is disclosed which, in response to forces acting upon it, such as gravity, inertia, magnetic fields and the like, opens or closes electric circuits or otherwise generates signals which may be used to control predetermined functions.

Abstract: A machine tool for maching of crankpins on crankshafts, or of similarly ts-axially offset portions of other types of workpieces, includes an arrangement for indexing the workpiece to a plurality of different positions to place new crankpins in position for machining without having to unclamp the workpiece or stop its rotation. Indexing accuracy is greatly improved and all indexing-related operations are powered by the prime mover of the machine tool rather than requiring separate drives.

Abstract: A surgical clip applicator includes a forceps and a detachable cartridge containing a string of clips which are fed seriatim between the anvils of the forceps jaws.

Abstract: This invention relates to seals for the knuckle pins connecting the legs of a drilling and/or production platform to the knuckle posts which are connected to spud tanks.

Abstract: A coffee machine has an assembly provided with a chamber for receiving a permanent filter selected, according to the taste preference of a user, from a set of such filters which each offer different flow resistance to water per unit time. A pod of ground compressed coffee is also removably receivable in the chamber; the characteristics of pod and filter are so selected that during each operation of the machine between 22-26% of the total aromatic substances present in the coffee in the pod, are extracted by hot water flowing through the pod. However, due to the different flow resistance offered by different filters, the quantity of beverage produced during a predetermined operating time will vary. In dependence upon the particular selected filter, the extracted aromatic substances will therefore be more or less diluted in the beverage, to suit a particular taste.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coffee brewing machine which is particularly suitable for family use and for a small commercial establishment, such as a refreshment room. The machine extracts the coffee beverage from a pod which contains ground coffee and is housed in a chamber defined by an upper block and by a removable lower box, between a jet-forming member fixed to the upper block and a filter housed in the removable lower box. It includes a water container, a heater and a pump which supplies the water to the chamber at the proper temperature and pressure. In the chamber the water penetrates the pod and extracts the coffee beverage therefrom and then the coffee beverage flows out of the machine.

Abstract: A field sensor control mechanism for doors and the like has two or more insulated electrodes mounted at different levels in the leading edge of a door or the like. A first oscillating circuit is connected with one of these electrodes and a second oscillating circuit, separate from the first one and serving as a comparison circuit for the same, is connected to the other electrode. The two circuits have base oscillating frequencies which are either identical or differ only slightly from one another. The circuits are so coupled to one another that the oscillations of the first circuit vary as a function of capacitance changes taking place in the electrodes.

Abstract: A pick-up system includes means for recognizing the displacement of objects to be photographed relative to the optical reproduction plane. The shutter of the pick-up system is actuated according to the relative motion of said objects. In a pick-up system comprising a variable diaphragm and a replaceable film of a special sensitivity, e.g. in an automatic camera, the shutter speed, being a function of the relative motion of the objects, determines the aperture of the diaphragm with respect to the sensitivity of the film.

Abstract: A multi-hole injection nozzle for air-compressing direct-injection internal combustion engines includes a first nozzle needle which is hollow, and a second nozzle needle which is axially slidable in an axial bore of the first needle. The first needle can close one or more nozzle holes which are spaced from the tip of the injection nozzle and the second needle can similarly close one or more nozzle holes which are, however, close to the tip and which have respectively different cross-sectional areas.

Abstract: A body of still water is confined in heat exchange with one or more ambient heat sources whose temperature is usually above but may drop near 0.degree. C. Heat is withdrawn from the body according to the heat-pump principle. If the temperature of the heat sources drops near zero the withdrawal of heat from the body results in the formation of ice in the body and the latent heat of fusion liberated during the ice formation is also withdrawn, so that the time periods during which the temperature of the ambient sources is near 0.degree. C. can be bridged. When the temperature of the ambient sources rises again their heat is used to re-melt the ice in the body of water.

Abstract: A device is disclosed which, in response to forces acting upon it, such as gravity, inertia, magnetic fields and the like, opens or closes electric circuits or otherwise generates signals which may be used to control predetermined functions.

Abstract: A holder for cans of paint and the like has a receptacle for a can and two hooks extending from the receptacle. One of the hooks extends upwardly from the receptacle and serves to be hooked over one rung of a ladder so as to suspend the receptacle therefrom; the other hook projects laterally outwardly from the receptacle and serves for hooking over a different rung of the ladder so as to stabilize the suspended receptacle relative thereto.

Abstract: A menu-planner, comprising a jacket element bounding an interior space and having an exposed outer surface provided with a first window and with two elongated substantially parallel second windows.First indicia are provided on the surfaces, including a list of consecutively numbered recipes and two pair of ingredient lists, the lists of each of the pairs flanking a respective one of the second windows along opposite lateral sides thereof with the ingredients of each list being arranged seriatim along the length of the respective window.Movable members move in the space relative to the windows to a plurality of positions in each of which a portion of the movable members is exposed outside the space.